Lion King has an original beat 

Lion King has an original beat 

The Lion King JR musical production had always been on St Peter’s Catholic School’s radar. Ever since they performed “Noah the musical” back in 2017, that is – it left the school with animal costumes…

It’s a van-tastic plan for Resthaven

He’s a man with a plan to get Resthaven a van. July 1 marks the beginning of a two-month-long campaign by Cambridge High School geography teacher Blair Ludlam and his class of Extension 4 students…

Key issues discussed in day of learning 

It wasn’t quite as big nor bustling as Fieldays, but another Cambridge-based event foiled by Covid last year finally went ahead Friday June 19—the inter-school Te Kaahui Ako o Te Oko Horoi Professional Learning Day…

A second chance to entertain 

Last year, it’s fair to say, was not a good year to host a school musical. Covid-19 hit Cambridge High School’s 2020 Jesus Christ, Superstar production effort hard: shifting schedules, and prompting cancellations—and meaning the…

Opinion: tech support of a different kind

By Matteo Di Maio As my household’s resident teenager, I’m also its resident tech support. For the most part, the job is about orientating cameras, or digging up passwords from under the couch. Today, though,…

Maddie and the arty bees

What would happen if all the world’s bees just… went? It’s a question former CHS student Maddie Shaw sought to answer in her scholarship winning design and photography portfolios, awarded earlier this year. Now, one…

A friendly neigh-bour

Monty the miniature pony came trotting through the front door at Resthaven on Burns last Wednesday morning — clip-clopping down the lino as the care centre’s first animal visitor since everyone shuttered their doors last…

The house that Jack built

It all started with the leaves of the cypress plant. The twisting branches of the Bonsai tree offered form. And the Tensegrity sculpture, a kind of optical illusion that seems to defy gravity itself, was…

Learning: via the pony express

And with a blur of little furry legs they were off: “Ronnie the pony and Jackson Adams on the inside…” went the commentator, “…with Khali and Quinn up there in the early stages and they’re…

Back on his feet: for one student, NCEA results day brings catharsis

For most Kiwi high school students, logging onto the NZQA website early on Thursday morning last week brought anxiety, tinged with equal parts dread and nervous expectation, as the results of their year-long NCEA studies…